Course Project

Communication Technology

Robert Jamerson

Rasmussen College

Executive Summary

There is no company which can ever be protected fully by a single layer of security. Where a single door could get closed, other tend to get left wide open, thus giving a way for hackers to quickly find different vulnerabilities. However, once an organization uses several defenses together, like; integrity auditing solutions, intrusion detection systems and malware scanners, these help in efficiently closing the gaps which get created by relying upon a single security solution. With the development of technology, the world is obliged to adapt. Crime has become a present-day problem, and with the spread of computer technologies and computers, computers that commit crime has become rampant (Willison &Warkentin, 2013).

Communication Technology

Scope

This week, we will look at diverse articles on data breaches. Companies get penetrated by cybercriminals. Some of the companies is among the biggest credit bureaus and the criminals get away with personal data for nearly 145 million individuals. In addition, to prevent downtime as a result of malicious attacks like network intrusions and DOS, that is, denial-of-service, security equipment and extra software ought to be used too. This too helps in improving the aspect of availability in information security (Sen, R., &Borle, 2015).

History

DiD, that is, Depth in Defense, is a strategy to Cybersecurity whereby there is a series of defensive mechanisms which get layered so as to protect valuable information and data. In the case that a single mechanism fails, the other one immediately steps up to thwart an attack. This strategy has intentional redundancies in a multi-layered and addresses several diverse attack vectors. Also known as the “castle approach,” Depth in Defense is therefore a concept in information assurance whereby several layers of defense or rather security controls get replaced all through an information technology system (Mavroeidakos, et.al, 2016).

References

Mavroeidakos, T., Michalas, A., &Vergados, D. D. (2016, April). Security architecture based on defense in depth for Cloud Computing environment. In 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)(pp. 334-339). IEEE.

Sen, R., &Borle, S. (2015). Estimating the contextual risk of data breach: An empirical approach. Journal of Management Information Systems, 32(2), 314-341.

Willison, R., &Warkentin, M. (2013). Beyond deterrence: An expanded view of employee computer abuse. MIS quarterly, 37(1).